Jeffrey Macklis, M.D.

Professor, President & Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard University

Jeffrey Macklis is the Max and Anne Wien Professor of Life Sciences in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, and a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and was founding program head of neuroscience at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. He is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) affiliate faculty member in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST).

Macklis attended MIT (a B.S. in bioelectrical engineering and a B.S. in literature), Harvard Medical School (Harvard-MIT HST Program) and graduate school at MIT within HST as a student of Richard L. Sidman. He was a postdoctoral fellow in developmental neuroscience at HMS, where he also trained clinically in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and neurology in the Harvard Neurological Training Program (no longer clinically active).

Macklis is the recipient of a number of awards, including a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Award, a Director’s Innovation Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Office, the CNS Foundation Award; a Senator Jacob Javits Award in the Neurosciences from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health; and the Cajal-Krieg Cortical Discoverer Prize. He is both an Allen Distinguished Investigator of the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group and a Brain Research Foundation fellow. Most recently, he is the recipient of a 2017 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award.